Using artificially synthesized stimuli, previous research has shown that cotton-top tamarin
monkeys easily learn simple AB grammar sequences, but not the more complex AnBn …

We propose that human self-domestication favored the emergence of a less aggressive
phenotype in our species, more precisely phenotype prone to replace (reactive) physical …

Neural oscillations at distinct frequencies are increasingly being related to a number of basic
and higher cognitive faculties. Oscillations enable the construction of coherently organized …

Early modern humans developed mental capabilities that were immeasurably greater than
those of non-human primates. We see this in the rapid innovation in tool making, the …

For the past two decades, it has widely been assumed by linguists that there is a single
computational operation, Merge, which is unique to language, distinguishing it from other …

Human language is a multi-componential function comprising several sub-functions each of
which may have evolved in other species independently of language. Among them, two sub …

Evolutionary Communication presents the first comprehensive evolutionary approach to the
study of human communication. Presuming no specialized knowledge of evolutionary …

A crucial design feature of language useful for determining when grammatical language
evolved in the human lineage is our ability to combine meaningless units to form a new unit …

Modern humans are biologically predisposed to the ability to create symbolic elements and
to combine them systematically to share feelings, thoughts, or beliefs. In considering …

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